The new span's self-anchored suspension (SAS) tower appears just behind the partially demolished original East Span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, 5-25-2014.

Wednesday, January 24, 2018

Update

BATA originally was created by the state Legislature in 1997 to administer the base $1 auto toll on the Bay Area's seven state-owned toll bridges. It began operations in 1998 under the auspices of MTC.

The Legislature in 2005 expanded BATA's responsibilities to include administration of all toll revenue from the region's state-owned toll bridges as well as joint oversight of the state Toll Bridge Seismic Retrofit Program with Caltrans and the California Transportation Commission.

This 21-member authority meets the fourth Wednesday of each month at 9:30 a.m.

To help solve the Bay Area's growing congestion problems, MTC and local transportation agencies worked with the state Legislature to craft a new ballot measure to fund congestion relief and public transit improvements in bridge corridors paid for by an increase in tolls on the region's seven state-owned toll bridges for the first time since 2010.